Re: Package maintainer script policy.

[Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>]

Michael Stone wrote:
> Quoting Joey Hess (joey@kitenet.net):
> > If you're paranoid building from source is the only way to go.
> 
> Why? If you'd said "building from source that you've thoroughly
> audited", you'd have a point. But how does building from source help you
> if the source contains, e.g.,
>    system("echo + >> ~/.rhosts");

I assumed you'd audit it.

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